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t' " * VORT MJLLTIMUS DEMOCRATIC PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY B. W. BRADFORD. Terms of (Subscript Ion: (?ne year 51.00 Six months../; ro Three months* , "5 jU CoitW|)on<i(?ac(! <ui <-i:t-rt ;it stfbjccts i<< Invited, but n?? rerp >n> dbiiit.v is assumed <or the views of correspondents. * Anonymous cdtmmiah at Inns will not he published In tin o columns. On application to t!i publisher. advertising jutes are' m:id" known to those Interested. Fort Mill 'Phone (with lonpj distance connections) No. 2U. - , It L-i FEBRUARY il. lP'il. The people <,f fort Mill and Fort Mill township should feel, nnd we have knowledge of the fact IhHt many of tlmni do fe I. gratified at the excellent results of Hep. reselltativ. J. K. Ilaile'n work in n._ r .1..1 ...i .. .!: i lilt" Jirj^lBIIIIIU" J1'^1 11 .1 MMIII'd, He has proved himself a faithful, energetic, tactful legislator, and his work has been a credit to the county which honored and trusted liim. His bi'l. which became an net, to extend the same rights and privileges to electric power companies hb are enjoyed by telephone and telegraph companies was in the interest of justice an 1 will be of great assistance to the Catawba Power company, in whoso success the town, the township and (the county are all interested; his act to allow in biatrial communities of 50 or more inhabitants police powers will be appreciated by the smaller cotton mill and other in dustrial communities, and is an important practical step toward he enforcement of law and order in this State; his elT >rts in raising the Catawba Indian appropiiation trom $1,200 to \$1,700 will bo approved. Mr. ilaiie was the only member of the York delegation who did not, by his vote, lend aid t> the silly hue ami cry wln.di was raised against the dispensary. There lias been much talk during the session of the baneful and reprehensible work of numerous lobbyis's, who seem to be beyond the ieach of the law. Hut these parasites and workers of injustice and wrong seem to feel the danger of approaching such men as Mr. Hailc, whoso experience along this line demonstrates that the evil of lobbying is blamable itgiinst the members of the legislature; that there would be no lobbying if there was not an appreciable number of susceptible legislators always to be found, through whom lobbyists can prey upon the {State with ease and security. Mr. Hailc tells us that in his four years' experience in the House he has never directly ??r indirectly been approached by n lobbyist for or against any measure of small er great importance. ? With the Editors. Fifty years from now you will hear the old tin.ts referring to the good old winter of JOOii 11)01. ?Sniineville (Ohio) Hniiuer. Mr. Hearst's money planks are highly popular with Democratic campaign workers. The more he planks down the be Her they like mil).? Kansas City Journal. A well-know 11 voice from Nebraska says thatj Dcmocr.itic victory ia in i lie air. That won't do any good. It tnuat opt d iwn to tho earth.? Mom pi i is (.'oin. Appeal. An Hiiti-Iioosevelt uprising may lie expected in the Indian Territory. Twelve officials have been removed from olficc for grafting or incompetency.-- Washington Post. It is remat knble how very wise people are about selling cotton when they have none, and how very foolish they are when they liave it to sell.?Charlotte Chronicle. Monte Carlo has made a profit of , $7,000,000 during the pant year. Put that will not keep other peoplefrom thinking they can go there and beat the gainK?Chicago Record-Herald. Death llHM inrnii". p.?! >mi ..pfuni?fwrurm amrir ilore Kooaevelt. The death ?jf Me- I Kinley placed him in the presi- I deulial chair ami now the (loath of Senator Hanna, who initrht have l>een nominated next June instead of Hooneve 11, may tfive Koosevt-lt the nomination witlioutopposition. <Wtnin it i* that the death of H anna removea opposition to Kooaevelt.?Lancaster knterprise. Fewor gallons; wears 1< u ;er; Dovoo . ' Cause cf the War. For tli*? bem-tit of llicfl1 of out i readers w liu do not understand why tlie Japfl and Russians are at wiir. we publish tlio following from t!?f Spartanburg Journal: war betwrnu Russia and Japan was caused by the encroachments of Russia on Cores, a small i country in the form of a peninsular lyiiilc near Japan. The posession of this country by Rus-un would p!n'*o that tremendous power almost within constant shot of the Japanese sh >re and would greatly eiulanoer the J integrity of Japan. C'orea ]> issch-o.- several mtu-li better poi ts than those Russia has on tli" I'aeitjr < ast ntui those niv i ureal ly desired us feeders for 111*? Trans Sib.-t inn Railway Rnss-ia's seizure and <icon pat ion of Manchuria uf'er thai piovinco has been awatded to Japan as the result <>f her victory over China several years ai?o greatly aicgpivah d Japan and her irritation has j^rown ^tenter as Russia has continued to violate a p oniise to yet out of Man; eliuria. There are many il-tails and complications to the situation l?nl t hia in brief is the cause of the war."' Desecrating the Flag. Congress has been urned to enact a law prohibiting the use of the ilnu as an advertisement on ] the ground that it is "d.-sccratin^." It will hardly pass at present. Why should it? What harm is | done by sneli ad vert isiut;? Does it not promote patriot ism instead of "descenditn:" the ihuj? All nations use their banner for advertising purposes. Iti London it is the commonest of sights. There, indeed, for fifty years, the revered portrait of (Jueen Victoria has been use I for advertising purposes ot every kind, from calico to colic and corns, mh is now the portrait <>f Kino Kdward. No. it would i not "desecrate the ting." hut would he a most wholesome sight to see i' painted on every Imirel of Minneapolis flour and to have every ham swathed in it that go? 8 to feed the hungry armies of the East. There is only one way to desecrate our ling; that is, to used in nnrighteous wars, to destiny the liberty or territorial integrity of other republics, or to plunder the weak. Japan Less Fcrtunale on Land. Reports of the movements of land forces have been even more meager than the reports of naval engagements, but such news as lias been received makes it, plain that .Japan lias been less fortunate on land than at sea. There have been rumors of several engagements on the Yalu river in which the Russians were victorious. Jt , is thought that those conflicts were between outposts and were of no great moment. A .Japanese party of (i()0 is said to have lauded at Talien-Wan and to have annihilated, lit) having been sabred by the n,,us.w.ku A K........ ..f i ) nan ..... ? t I Vfi 1 I- Ml J.?.,\/*/V7 IIIC7II in reported to have landed at Dove Hay, L'Vb. 10, and to have been repulsed with a loss of thirty killed. .Japanese dispatches contradict these ropor'H. and say that I'ort Art lint* has been isolated by.lapanese troops. It is reported that Japanese soldiers have managed to destroy several stretches of the Trans-Siberian railroad. The Brice Bill Passes. The bill introduced in the senate a few days atfo to empower towns to vote out ilis MMisaries passed the Imnse on last Thursday, after much discussion over the several amendments otTered thereto. The bill as amended and passed by tlie Seiiete and House will entail upon the people of the county of York a heavy tax burden it thoy should vote the dispensary out of York' Vlllll 1111(1 %t? I I -1 ? 11 ..... ...... ..... i > cuurn ut'l'I I \ t? lilt1 county <>f any part in the distribution of tho school funds as derived from the dispensary sales. The State says that the bill as passed doea not yet put tho matter on a direct vote, for it means if tiie county of York votes out tin* dispensary it will cost the county $.'>,200 in direct taxation, in addition to losing its part of the ampins school fund which for the last year amounted to considerable The counties of Saluda and Horry would eaeh be assessed $1,000 at the rate of a half mill on all the taxable property, and won hi lose their entire share of the"" surplus school fund. Greenwood and Marlboro, which have no dispensaries now, would not be forced to pay an extra assessment of taxes by ridding themselves of dispensaries, and they would not lose their portion of the schol fund. The hill does not force any county to take on a dispensary, but practically prevents a county from getting rid of one. 8TRAYED?From mv premises a few (lays ago two fi-weeks old pigs; ouo rod Jersey and one black spotted. A I liberal reward will bo paid for return of same. JOE TSClIEbLIEJt. I M Toddy and the Coon. Of all tho Presidents we've had. He's the tirst to have the KllU To ask tho kinky-headed raco Inside that sucred hall. Jiut thou, you seo, lie saw a chance To hit the South a welt, And all the colored seals wont in I To dine with Roosevelt This promenading with the coons Will some day have an end, His epitaph will be in full, Kn<di word correctly spelt: "Hero lies two hearts that beat as one, A coon and Ted Roosevelt." ?1 uke City (Fla ) Index. Not So Bad. After Alt. Representative McCain is responsible for the statement that tho dispensary conditions in York..:ii i .... i ...t .... . viin* nit) hoi us iuiii Jim newspaper correspondents painted them to bo. Ho is ii supporter of the bill of Senator llrice providing for local option not only in the establishment but the removal of dispensaries, but be is very much opposed to the Senate amendment taking away the school funds and that which seeks to require counties i 11 which there are no dispensaries to pay a half mill tax to pay the salarics ami expenses of constables sent into thoso counties to enforce the dispensary law. In discussing this amendment in the Senate Wednesday Mr. McCain declared that the author of the bill would not know it if he were to meet it in the middle of the road. Take away the school fund, he says, if that must be, hut don't load the hill down with restrictions, but let tin' governor decide whether or not the law ia being enforced and ! then apply the tax. It is a ques tion of local self government. The newspaper correspondents at Yorkville court house hud for two or three years been giving tin; impression that the dispensary deli inches the citizenship there. This he refuted. The people at Yorkville are as honorable and as sober us any other people in the Shite. He believed that no law at ' idl would he better than the bill as it came from the senate, lie wants a clean cut law. lie believes the dispensary law is the proper solution of tlie liquor question, but I the people are supreme and let them decide upon the measure.? I Hock Hill Herald. I Doing One's Best. The world has precious little use for the man who half tries. ! Wo sometimes wonder if he has much use for himself. He is probi ably interested in his own ense and : happiness, but in his work?never. ! And lie can never taste to its full joy of living. For the man who only half tries only half lives. In a little sermon on doing one's best Success points out that only to the mnn who has the habit of fully exerting himself can life be worth while. "This habit of always doing one's best enters into the very marrow of one's heart and character; it. affects cue's hearing, one's se If.p osscesion. The man who does everything to a finish has a feeling of serenity; he is not easily thrown ofT his balance; he lias nothing to fear, and ho can look the world in the face because he feels conscious that he has not put shoddy into anything, that he has had nothing to do with shams and that he has always done his level best. The sense of efficiency, of being master of one's craft, of being equal to any emergency, the consciousness of possessing the ability to do with superiority whatever one undertakes, will give soul satisfaction which a half-hearted, slipshod worker never knows. "When a man teels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well aa it can possibly bo done, and all of his facul ties sav 'Amen' to what he is doing and give their unqualified approval to his efforts?this is happiness, this is success. This buoyant sense of power spurs the faculties to their fullest development. It unfolds the mental, the moral and physical forcer, and this very growth, the consciousness of an i r.xpuimin^ ineninmy nnrt ol a broadening horizon, gives an added sati faction beyond the power of | words to describe. It is a realizi| tion of nobility, the divinity of the i mind." Letter toMcElhaney-ParksCo Fort Mill, S. O. Doai* Sirs: Would you rather have your customers speak of your shoes as wearing well, as not running down at the hem, as turning water, and taking a shine; or wag their heads and say nothing.' We'd rather have onrs, at long intervals, sny: "We want some more paiut, and we waut Devoe." We know it isn't in human nature to paint very ofteu; wo dou't expect them to come j vory often; don't want 'em to. All we ; want is to paint what thoy have to paint, whenever they paint it; the longer the time, the surer thoy are to oomo-bank. , Thorn's business enough in the world; there are houses enough (o paiut; let 'em take their time. If we were a shoemaker. we'd make shoes ?o last half a lifetime, aud shoe the wholo town. F W Dkvok A Co 43 New York P. S. W. B. Ardrey &Co. sell our paiut. The. Newspaper. How fov. people there are who I really value a newspaper, says S. H M Gniry in the Western Pub1 alier. It. is just like everything else in the world?what we've got we don't appreciate. In towns and cities intelligent business men could get along bettor without their m*als than without, their newspaper, but the majority of people, after all. do not appreciate ! it or value it as they woulu if it . were difficult to obtain. M;lX?v glance at and throw it down, and lean no more tell what it contains than the man in the moon. If they j put an advertisement in they eon! sider they have done the publisher I or proprietor a favor. Ti.ey never stop to think of the amount of la! bor required to get out a paper. |they reckon not the expense en tailed, they know nothing of the daily and nightly striin and mental powers of those who get it out. but if they dont receive their copy i on time they kick like steers. And yet, of all the educational ! agencies in the woild, the newsj paper is the greatest. The twenti eth century newspap r is the re. 1 c..l< ,.F ......... r I nun vu 11 l (H I > , I l I . I M > U'ill V y I'M I > ' ' 1 j labor and thought; I lie hest minds | of the best men have been worn : out in the etT >rt to bring it to its present state of perfection, an 1 ait stands today it is an epitome of i the doings and happenings of the universe. Science, religion, philosophy, everything that conv? tho happenings and \v> Ifare of hnmanity are taught in its columns, and if a good paper is subscriber! for and carefully read, it will prove a liberal education for the rentier The reflections have been suggested by a remark made recent I \ by Congressman Littlefi>dd. of | Maine. He said: "If it were not for the newspapers the jobs which go through Congress would be J terrible to contemplate. If there were no newspapers at all 1 don't believe I would be willing to trust | myself alone in the house of lepivj seutatives for fifteen minutes." i Mr. Littlefield is right; the newspapers act as a check ami restrainI iug iniluence on men who might | go wrong did they not know that they are being watched, and that , their wrong doing would be announced to the entire civilized ! world twenty-four hours after. Tho newspaper is a wholesome, restraining influence: it Indus the " ? - L deserving and exposes the mule, serving; it. educates and uplifts and refines; it is mayor,sheriff, detective ami teacher and preacher, all in one, and it rarely costs more than five cents. The people of today are certainly blessed by the press of the-nation, hut meat numbers are too ignorant or too pivj | udiced to know it, Pleasant Valley News. Mr. Editor: We are having I severe weather at present. 11 seems that the predictions of the Holair Weather Bureau man are coming true?either fair or foul. Mr. It. W. Doster is very sick at present from a severe attack of apoplexy on last Sunday. Dr. It. M. Potts returned Saturday from a visit to a "special friend" in the mountains of the good old North State. Mr. Waltej* Potts, formerly of Pleasant Valley, but now of Gunnison, Miss., was married recently to a young lady of that place. Hon. O. W. Potts, returned Saturday from Columbia, the Legislature having adjourned for this session. Ho repoits a very busy session. Wo are informed tlmt Mr. John W. Hainel, Editor of tlio Kershaw Era. and President of the Law and Order Leagno of the Stafe, will make the race for the Legislature in Lancaster county this year. Mr. Hamel has many friends in these parts and we predict for him a successful campaign. Feb. 22nd , Washington's Birthday was observed as a holiday by the teachers and students of the Pleasant Valley Academy. The Russo-.Jnpiinese war is the main topic of conversation in Plensant Valley now. The sympathy of the majority of the p.-ople is with the plucky daps. Is the oyster season over with Roy and Splinter? We haven't hoard of them storing any away lately. Mayb* they are "foundered." But then they are very good at more than one thing. S. E. 13, The time for the payment of taxes with the 2 per cent penalty exnires with th?? < !#%?? ..f _ ...... ? v- v |\7DV U L I lit* j month. On nnd after the 1st of March, 5 per cent will be added to the 2 per cent, miking the penalty 7 per cent, receivable up to nnd including March 15. After this date the books of the treasurer will be closed. The time for paying road tax will expire Februnry 21). ? ? It is stated that Japan has now 120,000 troops in Korea. Tha Japanese Hell. < I he .Ini) in? s" language has tin < equivalent for out word "hell," hut 4 lots (lio word ' i-sjroku" itist id. 4 ditniku (mi < f. t'ir-1. < ilt 1 >t i:?1 - < mouse hot hells, rnnj^iiif^ one be- ' nenth th-' other in tiers. Kuch < f J these to lis has sixteen addii <11:11 . hells outside it-. 1 s. like s > mnnv , anteehainbes, so there are in all ( l.'id hot hells. See ?i/d, there ate < ei^ht I a roe cold hells*. each with its < sixteen nnte-hel s. nmkini* the same < number of eoid that there a e hot < hells. Jiesides these 2i2 hot and ' cold hells for otfen^fers of the coin- * m<hi sort the wily daps hnvt twenty niainiiiotli "hells of titt- 1 dark- . ness." into which will he consigned c the spirits of children who take 4 the mime of Dai Liutsu, or (ireat < I tiiddha. in vain. < -<* - t Escaped an /.wiul l-'ate. < Mr. II. Haspirins, of Melbourne. Fla., writes. "My doetor told tne I had t 'onsnmpt ion aid nothing ( could he dote for inc. I wasoivou < up to die. rite of?, r of a free hot- i tie of Dr. Kino's New Ihs yew 1 for (lonsuinpt ion, induced tne to < try it. lies lilts were startling. I ' am now on the road to recovery and owe all to Dr. Kind's New Discovery. It surely saved my ' life." This great cute is guaranteed for ail throat and Iiuilj d:seases by All Drmjipsts. I.'rice ;jMe A- Sl.Oit. Tt id I tot ties free. , mi... \ 1 . < > o i in- .\iiiiuiK' \ ojisi unit1 lilllt way, nt it recent niertinij *?f its board t'f directors, decided to pennif tii nil of its tun ploy os ovei (k) years of aire who havo uivcn the company faithful sorvioo lor at loast ton years. Better Than Gold. ' ] was ti'ouhlotl for Several y are with t liroiiio indi^' sti n and n?wv ims tlohi 1 ity." writes ! '. d. (ireeu. of Lancastor. N. II No remedy 1 helped mo until I be^an usiin* Klectric Hitters. which did mo more yoqd tlrui ail the m>adieiiu s I ; over used. They have also kept ; my wife in excellent lealtii for years. She says Kleclrio Hitters are just splendid for female troubles; that they are a pro.ml tonic and iiivii^orator for weak, run down | women. No ot n r medicin can take its place in our family." Try them. <)111 y Sat i.-fa t n n guaranteed by All I haippist's. W. (>. T at um. the new liquor i ; commissioner, lias |i\-t> hundred applications for places. Ilehasap! pointinent for 1^ inspeetoin, with salaries ranj*ino from i?(>0 to Sl~>0 ]>er month, ami in addition lie has ' the employment of every person who works in the disp ui.-ary by the day or the week. Nearly Fcrfails His Life A runaway almost ending fatal 1,. ui... i?,l i-1 1 (I uui I IIIU- liirri i II I (It It*of .1. 15. Oriier, Franklin I!rove. III. For four years it dt tied ail doe- j j tors and all retnidies. But Bucklen's Ainica Salve had no trouble to cure liiin. Kqnally good for Burns. Bruises, Skin Krupt ions J and Biles. 25c at A il Di Uriel's ' -I. W.'l I ill, a physician of Son I li Bend, fml., is endeavoring to U? op inegro infants from turning Idack. He says that they art horn white 1 >ut the skin is more positive than that of any other human being and more pigment is thrown o'V to pro loot the body. By preventing this 1 pigmentation he expects to develop ( ! a race of while negroes. Mysterious Circumstance. ] One was pale and sc.Mow aid the otln-r fresh and rosy. \\ hene the J difference? She who is blushing ! with health uses Dr. King's Now Life Bills to maintain it. By gent* . Iv arousing the lazy organs they compel good digestion and head i nlf I'nnat i ?\oi ion 'I1.*' i k 1 I .... vv..u< i|>nnwii, .X 1 y I 111 ill. WIIIY 25c, at All I )rui;^iHt. Division of Streets Division of the streets of tho town of ! Fort Mill into Warils. Wartl No. 1, (in cliar^o of J. M. Spmtt) Massoy street. Withers street, Harris street. Railroad street anil Sprutt I street (east side railroad.) Ward No. J. < in chary ?f Iv. P.?. Har- ris) White street. Klliott street, Ardtvy I street and all the streets of the Fort Mill Mfff. Co. Ward No. (in charge of A. A. Young) Trade street, llooth street. Forest street, Kooky street and Clebourn street. Ward No. I, (in charge of S. L. Meacham) Academy street, Confederate J ! street, Ranks street, Jrpratt street (west | sido railroad) and all the streets of tho Midfeet Mill Co. i By order of tho eonnoil. T. S. KIKKl'ATKIClv, ! Attest: Intondant. ,'| i J. M. S PR ATT, Clerk. ? 1 A ; T TT rr?~ ~ : ~l- o n.i ! u. U. JUOJVVJU& QC U<J, 1 DEALERS IN j1 FINE LI QUO IIS AND WTNE|fe,;1 No. 42 East Trade St. ' CHARLOTTE. - - - N/C.1 ' eiirh. N. Ior Charlotte, N. CJ. [We also loach Bookkeeping, Shorthand. ore., l?y mail.| ll-l&-26t\v j ?IVE US A TRIAL ORDER and get the BEST WHISKIES, \Y L N E S, MtAMHES, Etc., It the most reasonable prices. J, 0. Ross & Co Props., TUi: GOl KD SALOON, CHARLOTTE, N. C. So. 2'? W Trade Both 'Phones. Work Well Done, 11uvo you Table Clolhs, Counterpaines, Doilies, Window Curtains, lllinkets, eL-., laundered by tho Model Steam Laundry, of Charlotte, N. C. Prices for laundering the above u tides cheerfully furnished. Our shipments are made Tlmrslay mornings and returned Saturlaya. McEihaneyParks Co. 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